Jonathan Swift Quotes
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.Jonathan Swift
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
Quentin Tarantino -
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?
Rachel Kushner -
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Ibrahim Babangida -
If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
Olafur Eliasson -
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
Said Nursi -
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
Gabriel Iglesias -
It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
Walter Russell Mead -
Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
Larry Craig -
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young -
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
Van Morrison
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I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
Laila Ali -
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
J. B. Priestley -
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
Gavin Newsom -
I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.
Dan Gable -
The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
Zebulon Pike -
Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.
Marilyn Monroe
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Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.
Alan Loy McGinnis -
Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.]
Gan De -
Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.
Sarah Dessen -
If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
Casey Abrams -
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
Jonathan Swift